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Natural Language Processing

Nanodegree Program

Master the skills to get computers to understand, process, and manipulate human language. Build models on real data, and get hands-on experience with sentiment analysis, machine translation, and more.

Master the skills to get computers to understand, process, and manipulate human language. Build models on real data, and get hands-on experience with sentiment analysis, machine translation, and more.

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2 months

Real-world Projects

Completion Certificate

Last Updated July 19, 2023

Skills you'll learn:
Machine translation • Alexa skill creation • Attention mechanisms • Fasttext
Prerequisites:
Intermediate Python • Neural network basics • Basic probability

Courses In This Program

Course 1 1 hour

Welcome to Natural Language Processing

This section provides an overview of the program and introduces the fundamentals of Natural Language Processing through symbolic manipulation, including text cleaning, normalization, and tokenization. You'll then build a part of speech tagger using hidden Markov models.

Course 2 3 weeks

Introduction to Natural Language Processing

This section provides an overview of the program and introduces the fundamentals of Natural Language Processing through symbolic manipulation, including text cleaning, normalization, and tokenization. You'll then build a part of speech tagger using hidden Markov models.

Course 3 4 weeks

Computing With Natural Language

Learn advanced techniques like word embeddings, deep learning attention, and more. Build a machine translation model using recurrent neural network architectures.

Course 4 4 weeks

Communicating with Natural Language

Learn voice user interface techniques that turn speech into text and vice versa. Build a speech recognition model using deep neural networks.

Taught By The Best

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Jay Alammar

Instructor

Jay is a software engineer, the founder of Qaym (an Arabic-language review site), and the Investment Principal at STV, a $500 million venture capital fund focused on high-technology startups.

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Arpan Chakraborty

Instructor

Arpan is a computer scientist with a PhD from North Carolina State University. He teaches at Georgia Tech (within the Masters in Computer Science program), and is a coauthor of the book Practical Graph Mining with R.

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Luis Serrano

Instructor

Luis was formerly a Machine Learning Engineer at Google. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Quebec at Montreal.

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Dana Sheahen

Content Developer

Dana is an electrical engineer with a Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Her work experience includes software development for embedded systems in the Automotive Group at Motorola, where she was awarded a patent for an onboard operating system.

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